12 May 2001 (Vol 322, Issue 7295)

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Editor's Choice

Do extraordinary experiences make great doctors?

BMJ 2001;322:0.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Do extraordinary experiences make great doctors?

BMJ 2001;322:0.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

News

African states call for ban on tobacco advertising

BMJ 2001;322:1139.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Australian bar worker wins payout in passive smoking case

BMJ 2001;322:1139.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Patients with breast cancer can stop tamoxifen after five years

BMJ 2001;322:1140.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

In brief

BMJ 2001;322:1140.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Study confirms that screening reduces deaths from breast cancer

BMJ 2001;322:1140.3 (Published 12 May 2001)

Report calls for improved systems for employing locums

BMJ 2001;322:1141.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Audit shows weaknesses in cervical cancer screening

BMJ 2001;322:1141.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

FDA warning to manufacturers of AIDS drugs

BMJ 2001;322:1143.3 (Published 12 May 2001)

First cases of human germline genetic modification announced

BMJ 2001;322:1144.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Watchdog calls for three year ban on insurers using genetic tests

BMJ 2001;322:1144.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

African states call for ban on tobacco advertising

BMJ 2001;322:1144.3 (Published 12 May 2001)

Editorials

TB in Leicester: out of control, or just one of those things?

BMJ 2001;322:1133 (Published 12 May 2001)

Opioids in chronic non-malignant pain

BMJ 2001;322:1134 (Published 12 May 2001)

Sexually transmitted infections: control strategies

BMJ 2001;322:1135 (Published 12 May 2001)

Career advice for doctors with a chronic illness

BMJ 2001;322:1136 (Published 12 May 2001)

Countering child poverty

BMJ 2001;322:1137 (Published 12 May 2001)

Spare a thought for editors

BMJ 2001;322:1138 (Published 12 May 2001)

Letters

This week's Letters section

Routine audit is an ethical requirement of screening

BMJ 2001;322:1179.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Effect of receiving a heart transplant

BMJ 2001;322:1179.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Debate about blood pressure and epistaxis will continue

BMJ 2001;322:1181.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Letters - continued

Principal variable is not what it seems in league tables

BMJ 2001;322:1181.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Reduction of postoperative mortality and morbidity

BMJ 2001;322:1182 (Published 12 May 2001)

Dual blockade of renin-angiotensin system

BMJ 2001;322:1183.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Air travel and risk of venous thromboembolism

BMJ 2001;322:1183.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Homoeopathy in malaria: head of infectious diseases replies

BMJ 2001;322:1184.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Sifting the evidence

BMJ 2001;322:1184.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Fillers

Email submissions from outside the United Kingdom

BMJ 2001;322:1152.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

After-dinner speeches

BMJ 2001;322:1158.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Re: re-

BMJ 2001;322:1166.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

The Aga baby

BMJ 2001;322:1170 (Published 12 May 2001)

The life of an Egyptian doctor

BMJ 2001;322:1178 (Published 12 May 2001)

This Week In the BMJ

Patients with chronic pain prefer fentanyl patches to oral morphine

BMJ 2001;322:0.6 (Published 12 May 2001)

Violence is main reason why GPs remove patients from their lists

BMJ 2001;322:0.7 (Published 12 May 2001)

Deprived women are more likely to die of heart attacks before reaching hospital

BMJ 2001;322:0.5 (Published 12 May 2001)

Individual interpretation of vitamin K policies casts doubt on cancer link

BMJ 2001;322:0.4 (Published 12 May 2001)

Children with headache become adults with headache

BMJ 2001;322:0.3 (Published 12 May 2001)

Clinical Reviews

Sexually transmitted infections

BMJ 2001;322:1160 (Published 12 May 2001)

Using cardiovascular risk profiles to individualise hypertensive treatment

BMJ 2001;322:1164 (Published 12 May 2001)

Blood pressure measurement

BMJ 2001;322:1167 (Published 12 May 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

WMA agrees to refine changes to Declaration of Helsinki

BMJ 2001;322:1142.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Nurse led pilot schemes succeed despite obstacles

BMJ 2001;322:1142.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Indian health officials probe use of “unapproved” treatment

BMJ 2001;322:1142.3 (Published 12 May 2001)

US lawmakers pass bill on violence to fetus

BMJ 2001;322:1142.4 (Published 12 May 2001)

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal] - continued

Bush's policy on abortion abroad overturned

BMJ 2001;322:1142.5 (Published 12 May 2001)

Dutch GPs take three day strike action

BMJ 2001;322:1142.6 (Published 12 May 2001)

Audit team finds further faults with doctor's results

BMJ 2001;322:1143.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Time release analgesic causes fatal overdoses in United States

BMJ 2001;322:1143.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Papers

Relation between headache in childhood and physical and psychiatric symptoms in adulthood: national birth cohort study

BMJ 2001;322:1145 (Published 12 May 2001)

Vitamin K policies and midwifery practice: questionnaire survey

BMJ 2001;322:1148 (Published 12 May 2001)

Relation between socioeconomic deprivation and death from a first myocardial infarction in Scotland: population based analysis

BMJ 2001;322:1152.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Primary care

Randomised crossover trial of transdermal fentanyl and sustained release oral morphine for treating chronic non-cancer pain

BMJ 2001;322:1154 (Published 12 May 2001)

General practitioners' reasons for removing patients from their lists: postal survey in England and Wales

BMJ 2001;322:1158.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Education and debate

New Zealand's new health sector reforms: back to the future?

BMJ 2001;322:1171 (Published 12 May 2001)

Appraising organised screening programmes for testing for genetic susceptibility to cancer

BMJ 2001;322:1174 (Published 12 May 2001)

Books

Regulating Medicines in Europe: Competition, Expertise and Public Health

BMJ 2001;322:1187.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

The Encyclopedia of Stress

BMJ 2001;322:1187.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

PRESS

Smear tests and seat belts

BMJ 2001;322:1188.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Stress

BMJ 2001;322:1188.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Personal View

Medical litigation: who benefits?

BMJ 2001;322:1189.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Soundings

The cow war

BMJ 2001;322:1189.2 (Published 12 May 2001)

Review

Minerva

BMJ 2001;322:1190 (Published 12 May 2001)

Correction

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

BMJ 2001;322:1166.1 (Published 12 May 2001)

Obituary

Jerrold Ross BurgessCoralie Rendle-ShortJohn Hamilton RossJohn Alexander ShearerAnn Woolcock

BMJ 2001;322:1186 (Published 12 May 2001)